D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has requested an ethics review of a freshly departed top aide who discussed taking a job with Howard University months after negotiating a deal for nearly $300 million in tax breaks and public funding for a new hospital for the university.
Rashad M. Young abruptly left his position as D.C. city administrator Friday after running day-to-day government operations since the mayor took office in 2015.
He told Bowser (D) on July 31 that he was in talks for a job at Howard University and sought ethics guidance, according to a letter she sent Friday to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.
The mayor wrote that she directed her general counsel on Aug. 4 to review the circumstances of the job offer and the ethics board’s opinion on the matter.
